Cinematheque KOFA

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The Terrorizers

Director : Edward YANG Cast : Cora MIAO Chien-jen, LI Li-chun, LIU Ming, WONG On, CHIN Shih-chieh
1986 110min D-Cinema
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"All you know are those routines. Repetitions, day in, day out. Do you know why I lock myself in there all day? It's the only way to hide from it."

A girl tries to evade police arrest by jumping from a window. A young passerby comes to her assistance. Afterwards, this young man blows up a series of the girl’s headshots, reminding the audience of Michelangelo Antonioni after That Day on The Beach. Totally bored as the girl is locked inside the house by her mother, she picks up the phone and makes random calls, claiming to be a man’s mistress. The call is picked up by a female writer, who not only has doubts on her own marriage but gives inspiration for her writing. Through the film’s multi-perspective and storylines that cross paths occasionally, Yang states that each person can somehow be a “terrorizer”. Totally modernist with an essence, the film sharply dissects the cold and fragile urban human relationships. The Terrorizers was regarded in Taiwan as Yang’s finest work in the 1980s.   [WEN Tien-Hsiang, 12th BIFF 2007]

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